1.  Laura found an occasional outlet in humorous accounts of their lives related to close women friends with an infectious laugh.

2.  If you need inner strength talk to a loving partner or close friend Sunday.

3.  And she has given some away to close friends who begged for it, including Austin photographer Steve Clark, who owns the Stephen L. Clark Gallery for photography.

4.  Actually, they ARE all friends, and in the case of Coover and Hawkes, close friends.

5.  Bush appears to have limited overnight access to close friends.

6.  But he considered his experience more positive than negative, particularly because he lost to close friend Ben Crenshaw.

7.  But privately, he appeared so down over the defeat that close friends worried about him.

8.  But they click as strangers who end up close friends when they travel west together from New York.

9.  Close friend of Barry Switzer.

10.  Close friends, be darned.